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title: 'Compute Together, Stay Together: A First-Principles Analysis of Universal Computation and the Negentropic Imperative for Alignment'
slug: 'compute-together-stay-together'
date: 2026-05-13
type: 'essay'
status: 'published'
tags: ['enviroai', 'ai', 'information-theory', 'thermodynamics', 'paper']
abstract: 'Argues that cosmic, biological, and artificial computation are participants in a single universal negentropic trajectory, and derives an alignment imperative from that continuity.'
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author: 'Jed Anderson'
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original_date: 2025-09-29
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Argues that cosmic, biological, and artificial computation are participants in a single universal negentropic trajectory, and derives an alignment imperative from that continuity.

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